What controls the quality of photodynamical simulations? Electronic structure versus nonadiabatic algorithm

J Janoš, P Slavíček - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The field of nonadiabatic dynamics has matured over the last decade with a range of
algorithms and electronic structure methods available at the moment. While the community …

Calculations of excited electronic states by converging on saddle points using generalized mode following

YLA Schmerwitz, G Levi, H Jónsson - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Calculations of excited electronic states are carried out by finding saddle points on the
surface describing the variation of the energy of the system as a function of the electronic …

Fast method for excited-state dynamics in complex systems and its application to the photoactivation of a blue light using flavin photoreceptor

P Mazzeo, S Hashem, F Lipparini… - The journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The excited-state dynamics of molecules embedded in complex (bio) matrices is still a
challenging goal for quantum chemical models. Hybrid QM/MM models have proven to be …

A local diabatisation method for two-state adiabatic conical intersections

E Vandaele, M Mališ, S Luber - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2024 - ACS Publications
A methodology to locally characterize conical intersections (CIs) between two adiabatic
electronic states for which no nonadiabatic coupling (NAC) vectors are available is …

[HTML][HTML] The ΔSCF method for non-adiabatic dynamics of systems in the liquid phase

E Vandaele, M Mališ, S Luber - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Computational studies of ultrafast photoinduced processes give valuable insights into the
photochemical mechanisms of a broad range of compounds. In order to accurately …

Spin–orbit couplings for nonadiabatic molecular dynamics at the ΔSCF level

M Malis, E Vandaele, S Luber - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2022 - ACS Publications
A procedure for the calculation of spin–orbit coupling (SOC) at the delta self-consistent field
(ΔSCF) level of theory is presented. Singlet and triplet excited electronic states obtained with …

Subsystem density-functional theory: A reliable tool for spin-density based properties

P Eschenbach, J Neugebauer - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Subsystem density-functional theory compiles a set of features that allow for efficiently
calculating properties of very large open-shell radical systems such as organic radical …

[HTML][HTML] Robust ΔSCF calculations with direct energy functional minimization methods and STEP for molecules and materials

C Kumar, S Luber - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The direct energy functional minimization method using the orbital transformation (OT)
scheme in the program package CP2K has been employed for Δ self-consistent field (ΔSCF) …

The Role of Aqueous Solvation on the Intersystem Crossing of Nitrophenols

E Vandaele, M Mališ, S Luber - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The photochemistry of nitrophenols is a source of smog as nitrous acid is formed from their
photolysis. Nevertheless, computational studies of the photochemistry of these widespread …

A ΔSCF model for excited states within a polarisable embedding

M Nottoli, P Mazzeo, F Lipparini, L Cupellini… - Molecular …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Hybrid TDDFT/MM approaches are very popular methods for describing electronic
transitions of molecules in solution or embedded in more complex (bio) matrices. However …